Week #12 of 2025 has arrived... Spring is here! Spring is here!... if only for a minute!!! Death and rebirth... it's glorious when it comes! Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square.  Done? Are you in a season of saying no, or a season of saying yes? I recently realized that it was time for me to stop saying no to everything, and start saying yes a bit more... No was useful for a while.  There were too many things...  Focus was essential. But, it is easy to get all caught up in your perfectly curated situation, and not notice as things get stale, novelty dries up, and growth grinds to a halt. Everything...

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The people around you are having a huge effect on the expression of your personality.

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Week #4 of 2025 has arrived. The polar vortex has sent super cold weather to the Great Plains. My hands hurt it's so cold. The polar vortex is cyclical. Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square.  Done? Cycles. Everything cycles. And yet, cycles don't exist in a vacuum. We are imprisoned in the cycles of: the universe, the earth, human history, our country, our culture, our politics, our family, etc... but we aren't imprisoned by those cycles. And while as individuals we can't remove ourselves from the cycles we find ourselves in, our actions do affect the trajectory and duration of the cycles. You do have agency. However, it is often not the agency that...

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Every person, every thing, every idea in our lives weighs on us in measure to how dear we hold it.  Some are worth carrying forever, some only for a while, and some were never worth carrying.

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Week 48 of 2024 has arrived. The holiday planning and decorations are in full swing.  Enjoy it.  It's the most human thing in the world to celebrate the endings and beginnings of things. Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square.  Done? I have been writing this weekly newsletter for 2 years and 2 weeks. 106 weekly newsletters. Does that seem like a lot?  I have been recording the podcast for a year and 2 weeks.  54 podcasts. Does that seem like a lot? It doesn't seem like it has been that long, and also it seems like I have always been writing it each week. I think that is when a good habit...

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Life is Struggle, Struggle is Life, would that make even the messiest struggle more noble?

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Thinking of time as a cycle rather than a unidirectional line has made the background anxiety around current crises easier to bear.

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Focus on becoming the person you need to be to accomplish the goals that you need to accomplish, to achieve the dreams that you have for yourself. Think of yourself as the author, not the character...

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If you are considering a change for the better, you need to acknowledge the you that you have to let go of. It's ok to be sad and to grieve that version of yourself... but the price of every new and better version of you is leaving the old version behind.

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We are all recovering. Relapse is part of recovery. In everything that you want to improve, on every personal hill that you are climbing, you will eventually backslide. Hopefully you don't tumble all the way down the hill. Hopefully you slide to a stop and immediately refocus on the summit that inspired you in the first place. 

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